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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: muwarrior69 on April 26, 2015, 05:14:03 PM

Title: What if students could fire their professors?
Post by: muwarrior69 on April 26, 2015, 05:14:03 PM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/04/26/401953167/what-if-students-could-fire-their-professors

Title: Re: What if students could fire their professors?
Post by: forgetful on April 26, 2015, 05:24:29 PM
That politician may have put forward the most idiotic bill in the history of politics. 
Title: Re: What if students could fire their professors?
Post by: ChicosBailBonds on April 26, 2015, 06:59:40 PM
That politician may have put forward the most idiotic bill in the history of politics. 

Oh no no no, there are so many ahead of this one.  So so so many
Title: Re: What if students could fire their professors?
Post by: rocket surgeon on April 26, 2015, 07:19:25 PM
That politician may have put forward the most idiotic bill in the history of politics. 


Whoa whoa whoa-overstatement of the year alert!!  Give me 1/2 a second and I could come with a few hundred way way worse.  Your teal looks like black
Title: Re: What if students could fire their professors?
Post by: forgetful on April 26, 2015, 07:26:25 PM

Whoa whoa whoa-overstatement of the year alert!!  Give me 1/2 a second and I could come with a few hundred way way worse.  Your teal looks like black

Hyperbole:  Deliberate overstatement to draw emphasis to a situation/event.
Title: Re: What if students could fire their professors?
Post by: ChitownSpaceForRent on April 27, 2015, 12:35:22 PM
If I had that power, I would utilize it to fire one of my professors at MU. She needs to retire. Thats only one though out of more or less 30.
Title: Re: What if students could fire their professors?
Post by: MerrittsMustache on April 27, 2015, 12:42:47 PM
Honestly, how could anyone think it's a good idea to put a person's career in the hands of a bunch of 18 to 22-year-olds?
 
Title: Re: What if students could fire their professors?
Post by: ChicosBailBonds on April 27, 2015, 12:43:34 PM
Honestly, how could anyone think it's a good idea to put a person's career in the hands of a bunch of 18 to 22-year-olds?
 


 ;)

I see what you did there.....now you know why so many college coaches are control freaks.
Title: Re: What if students could fire their professors?
Post by: Pakuni on April 27, 2015, 12:44:51 PM
What if a professor could arbitrarily flunk his entire class?
Same answer - stupidity would ensue:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/27/professor-fails-his-entire-class-and-his-university-intervenes
Title: Re: What if students could fire their professors?
Post by: rocket surgeon on April 27, 2015, 12:57:31 PM
Hyperbole:  Deliberate overstatement to draw emphasis to a situation/event.

ok-i can go with that-cool-sorry